The Dhaka University authorities yesterday claimed they never said “outsiders were prohibited on campus”.

Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque yesterday said there is no scope for bringing changes to the 30 percent freedom fighters' quota in public jobs because of a Supreme Court order.

The Dhaka University authorities yesterday said no outsider will be allowed to roam or stay on the campus without prior permission, a move that goes against the very character of the country's premier university.

Quota reform leader Rashed Khan has been taken in for a second phase of remand grilling amidst countrywide outcry demanding his unconditional release.

The recommendations made by several public service reform committees and Public Service Commission since the introduction of quota system in civil service in 1972 will be reviewed to decide on either reformation or cancellation of the system, says Cabinet Secretary M Shafiul Alam.

Condemning the attacks on general students demanding quota reforms, Sirajul Islam Chowdhury, a professor of Dhaka University, says the incidents that had happened are “unfortunate, shameful and unbelievable”.

Quota reform leader Toriqul Islam, who was brutally beaten up by BCL men on July 2, is being brought to Dhaka from Rajshahi for better treatment.

The seven-member committee formed “to review or reform or cancel” the quota system for the civil service will sit for its first meeting today.

With bandages from toe to thigh on his right leg and eight stitches on left side of his head, Toriqul Islam is unable to turn to any side while lying in his hospital bed.

A group of guardians and other citizens yesterday accused the government of playing a dubious role on the quota issue.

Her eyes were full of fury and voice quivered with rage. She looked frustrated and also a bit traumatised while narrating the physical assault, verbal abuse and mental torture she endured at the hands of those against quota reform and police.

Two groups are concurrently demonstrating at Dhaka University, one protesting the attack on students and the other against what they are describing as agitation at campus. Girls in big numbers have come down to the streets and chanting slogans against attack on students.

With two bones of his legs broken, eight stitches on his head and bruises all over the body, Toriqul Islam lies still on his hospital bed. His right leg plastered up to his thigh, he looks absolutely helpless.

Students and teachers of Dhaka University and Jahangirnagar University stage demonstrations protesting the manhandling of Dhaka University teacher Fahmidul Haq and temporary detention of writer and anthropologist Rahnuma Ahmed, and former student leader Baki Billah.

Under what law, by what right, is the BCL beating up the students? Why are the police a mere spectator in all this? On Monday, police were seen leaving the Shaheed Minar just as they saw the BCL men coming to attack the protesters. Reportedly, a number of female students were also manhandled and even kicked. Was it a case of law enforcers leaving the ground so the law breakers could have their way?

While multiple assaults on quota reform activists in Dhaka University caused furore on the campus and grabbed media and public

Police claim that Faruk Hassan, a joint convener of the quota reformist platform, has been shown arrested in an arson case.

A group of teachers at Rajshahi University come up with an innovative form of protest at campus against the spate of attacks carried out on students seeking quota reform.

Students of Dhaka University condemn Bangladesh Chhatra League’s attack on quota reformists at the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka.

Government high ups are considering civil service quota reforms, said Cabinet Secretary M Shafiul Alam yesterday.